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...weres and aren't-yets get thrown to the wolves on the first day of the tournament. The only way to become a seeded player is to win a few matches, and how good are the chances of winning when they hit you with John Newcombe, last year's Wimbledon champion, as soon as you've laced up your Adidas...
When Richard Burton arrived at Wimbledon, he was escorting a young brunette, and Elizabeth Taylor was nowhere in sight. "This," Burton beamed to curious reporters, "is my daughter Kate. I wanted her to see Wimbledon. Elizabeth, unfortunately, is working." Kate, whose mother is the actor's first wife, Sybil, had her own opinion of the Wimbledon tennis tournament. "It's smashing," she said...
...WIMBLEDON, A CELEBRATION...
This time McPhee splendidly records the sights and inhabits the psyches of a dozen or so great players at key moments during the 1970 matches at Wimbledon. His triumph, though, is a portrait of Robert Twynam, senior groundsman, who for years has exhorted the Wimbledon grass to grow, almost blade by blade. For Twynam, the empyrean racket men of the age are mainly classified as "toe-draggers, sliders or choppers," in relation to how their profane tennis shoes carve up England's most pruned and perfect piece of greensward...
Alfred Eisenstaedt's photographs are fine, but it is unfortunate he did not cover the same Wimbledon year that McPhee describes...